Red Snapper?

My son has a peanut allergy.   It’s not a bad one, but its annoying when it happens (to him).   We keep Benadryl and Calagel in the car and from time to time have to use it.   But it’s sometimes a mystery why he has a reaction.    Sometime it isn’t immediate but whenever he reacts, he gets hives on his face in a few minutes and everything itches.  

He has no breathing problems—never has.   I asked him again tonight just to be sure.   I asked, because he had a rather immediate reaction tonight to dinner dad made that had only a few ingredients.   It was fresh red snapper fish from Whole Foods, lemon, salt, pepper and paprika.   That’s it.   But man did he react.

My son loves all kinds of fish and shellfish.    Was it the red snapper?    Something affected him for sure.   He couldn’t eat dinner for about a half hour until the reaction calmed down.   And then we fed him something other than red snapper…

The Big Boy Update:  My son never gets upset when he has an allergic reaction.   This time he was on the counter in the bathroom looking at his face, waiting to see if it broke out in hives.   Then—when it did—he wanted me to take pictures of it so he could see how much better it was ten minutes later.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter came in from school to find me on the phone with my best friend.   It’s a good thing I was finishing the call because my daughter came bouncing in to the pool, rolling on her purple yoga ball, saying, “mama, I have no patients!”